AVP - Legal

Location

Mumbai | India

Job description

• The role is responsible for managing legal aspects of Firstsource related to drafting, vetting and/ or negotiating a variety of agreements, responding and/ or drafting RFI/ RFP, litigation, appointing and liaising with external counsel, closing legal elements of transactions, responding to legal queries (both internal and client related), managing legal audit requirements and helping in all legal matters pertaining to the Europe geography

• This role will report to Europe General Counsel, London and work alongside the Europe Legal team spread in India and UK

• Support Europe General counsel who has overall responsible for legal, Corporate Governance and Compliance for the Europe Geo
• Draft and negotiate Client and partner/vendor/lease contracts
• Ability to partner with business leaders and support functions to solve problems, mitigate legal and compliance risks, and provide practical advice.
• Standardize approaches across Business Units and partner with global teams to minimize Risk
• Thought leadership on legal and policy matters impacting Business units
• Communicate and negotiate with external parties (regulators, external counsel, public authority etc.), creating relations of trust

• Negotiate, draft and implement multi-party agreements, in client and vendor settings
• Collaborate with management, business and other departments on compliance and any other issue identified
• Provide legal support such as due diligence, review of agreements and advisory support to global Mergers and Acquisition team.
• Ensure that business and compliance issues/concerns are being appropriately evaluated and resolved
• Responsible for day-to-day management of direct reports, their development and growth in the function
• Desire to be a generalist and lead response on a variety of tasks that come to an inhouse legal team

Qualification Experience

Critical:

• University degree and qualified in India.
• Overall Post Qualified Experience: 10 - 14 years
• Industry Experience: In-house experience preferred.
• Additional US/ UK qualified lawyer would be a bonus.
• Proven commercial law experience.
• Has sound legal knowledge to be able to provide critical and cost effective legal support and advice.
• Able to manage and deliver internal and external communication on transactions/ projects to stakeholders in user friendly and efficient manner.
• Familiarity working within compliance in addition is a bonus.

Know How

Critical:

• End to end management of contracts
• Technology platforms.
• Individual should be aware of key and recent concepts in law that have evolved and established in business use.

Desirable:

• Company Secretary/Board related compliances/procedures
• Knowledge of Risk and Compliance framework management

Personal Attributes/Traits

• Consultative - Agreeable, inclusive and tolerant of different perspectives and opinions
• Socially confident - Comfortable in different situations and with different kinds of people
• Achievement oriented - Strives to meet or exceed standards of excellence
• Decisive and action oriented - Ability to take appropriate decisions while working in a fast paced environment
• Creative - Generating new ideas
• Eager to learn - Keen on learning and implementing new ideas
• Resilient - Copes well with setbacks

Competencies

• Business Foresight - Undertakes systematic and formal research to gather information and anticipates opportunities or future possible challenges
• Influencing Others - Is flexible in changing one s strategy to adapt most effectively to the audience
• Fostering Partnerships with Customers - Proactively anticipates roadblocks to customer satisfaction and adapts to their resolution
• Managing Transformation - Motivate the teams/managers about the change vision through formal and informal conversations
• Driving Excellence - Actively improves self and team by setting stretch goals, raises the bar with respect to existing standards of excellence and benchmarks
• Leading Teams - Creates opportunities for individuals/teams to demonstrate their strengths
• Working Across Boundaries - Demonstrates willingness to learn from other teams and individuals

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